Benedetto of Savoy

Prince Benedetto Maria Maurizio, Duke of Savoy (21 June 1741-4 January 1808) was Duke of Chablais and Duke of Savoy.

Biography
Prince Benedetto Maria Maurizio was born in the Palace of Venaria in the Savoyard capital of Torino (Turin) to Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia and his wife Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, and was descended from Louis XIII of France, Ferdinand III of Germany, and other European nobility. He was named for Pope Benedict XIV, and was the third in line to the succession.

With the start of the French Revolutionary Wars, he was made the commander of an army of French Royalists in northern Italy and fought in the Battle of Loano on 23 September 1795, which was a defeat at the hands of the First French Republic. He died in 1808 at the age of 67.